What did people do before toilet paper was invented?

Did you know that if every household in the US replaced one 12 pack of virgin fiber bathroom tissue with 100% recycled ones, we could save 1.3 BILLION gallons of water?

Before toilet paper was invented, people used:

• Newsprint, paper catalogue pages in early US



• Hay balls, Scraper kept in container by the privy in the Middle Ages



• Discarded sheep's wool in the Viking Age, England



• Frayed end of an old anchor cable was used by sailing crews from Spain and Portugal



• Corn cobs, Sears Roebuck catalog, mussel shell, newspaper, leaves, sand- United States



• Water and your left hand, India



• Pages from a book, British Lords



• Coconut shells in early Hawaii



• Lace was used by French Royalty



• Public Restrooms in Ancient Rome- A sponge soaked in salt water, on the end of a stick



• The Wealthy in Ancient Rome-Wool and Rosewater



• French Royalty-lace, hemp



• Hemp & wool were used by the elite citizens of the world



• Using the river as a toilet was very common internationally



• Bidet, France



• Snow and Tundra Moss were used by early Eskimos